Monday, July 15, 2013

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Welcome to the Back to School Blast!

Getting your family prepared to head back to school, can be difficult especially after a long, fun-filled summer. Here are a few of our favorite Back to School Tips to help you along the way.

1. Back-to-School Supplies Checklist - Backpack? Check. Pencils? Check. Safety scissors? Not Yet. Use the same checklist each time you head out to grab supplies, to keep track of what you have already purchased and the things you still need to. These are also handy if you have more than one child. Simply print 2, 3, 4 list and add their name to the top.

2. Make sure and Label Everything you get for your kids- With everyone getting all the same items you don't want things to get lost.
3.Check out the circulars,many places price match! So you don't have to run all over town make sure and see where the best specials are and make sure and keep the circulars so you can take advantage of price match.
4.Buy extra supplies. They will go quickly and instead of buying overpriced supplies midway through the year make sure and have a few extras available for later on.

I don't have a child in school yet (too little), but thinking back to when my mom was getting me ready to head back to school, she always made sure we got to bed at an early time and ate a good breakfast to start the day off right. We also made our lunches the night before.

Looking back on my school days-- a great word of advice to students: Tour a new school building first! That way you know where each class is and can map out the best routes on large campuses so you won't be late on your first day.

Make a special "welcome back" package for your children. You can put things in there that they can use all throughout the year (but do not necessarily need) and wrap them up all pretty. It will get them very excited!

If your child is just starting preschool or kindergarten and they have a rest time, start having your child to lay quietly for a period of time each day. It's even better if you can learn when the teacher has this scheduled. Also it helps both them and the teacher if they are already used to getting up at the time they'll be waking when school starts.

Try to have the school pre-purchase the school supplies in bulk as a kit. Our PTA does this and it saves to much time and headache! We just buy the kit at the end of the year for the next year and bam! It's done!

If you aren't on the school days schedule all summer, make sure you start it at least a week before school starts so that you aren't all exhausted the first few days of school. Also, if possible, buy extra supplies than what the school tells you to because part way through the year they will need more and it wont be on sale then.

My tip would be to keep the kids on a schedule during the summer so going back to school is an easy transition. Changing bed time and waking schedules during the summer will make it more difficult when they need to go back to school in the Fall.